Любите ли вы Брамса? От всей души

Fransuaza Sagan - strannai͡a zvezda frant͡suzskoĭ literatury, neizmenno sovremennyĭ klassik vne li͡uboĭ sovremennosti. Svoi istorii o li͡ubvi v pustote, gde sobytiĭ v mire net, no vsegda estʹ prii͡atnoe vremi͡apreprovozhdenie, ona pisala pod vlii͡aniem ėkzistent͡sializma Zhan-Poli͡a Sartra. Ee rasskazy i͡avno vdokhnovleny Mopassanom. Otchasti ona - literaturnai͡a sestra Sėlindzhera, tvorcheskiĭ predok Salli Runi: mikroskopicheskie dvizhenii͡a dushi vsegda interesovali i ee samu, i ee geroev gorazdo bolʹshe, chem li͡ubye vneshnie sobytii͡a i lichnye postupki. I pri ėtom v realʹnoĭ zhizni Sagan nakhodilosʹ mesto i skandalam v svetskoĭ khronike, i azartnym igram, i burnoĭ li͡ubvi, i ochenʹ obʺemnoĭ realʹnosti - naprimer, parizhskim sobytii͡am 1968 goda. Ona zhila kak zablagorassuditsi͡a v mire, gde zhenshchine vse eshche prednaznachalasʹ skuchnai͡a, uzkai͡a, podchinennai͡a rolʹ "ukrashenii͡a", i vse ee geroini ispodvolʹ ili otkryto buntui͡ut protiv takogo kastinga: pritvorno igrai͡a po pravilam, poroĭ chrezmerno uvlekai͡asʹ i dazhe nachinai͡a iskrenne veritʹ v sobstvennui͡u igru, oni podryvai͡ut navi͡azannye zakony uzhe tem, chto postoi͡anno ochenʹ i͡asno ikh osoznai͡ut. V ėtot sbornik voshli dva teksta Sagan: ee ranniĭ roman "Li͡ubite li vy Bramsa?" - istorii͡a o zhenshchine, chʹeĭ zhiznʹi͡u pytai͡utsi͡a upravli͡atʹ dvoe muzhchin, i "Ot vseĭ dushi" - redkiĭ primer obrashchenii͡a Sagan k realʹnoĭ zhizni, sobranie glubokikh i ostroumnykh rassuzhdeniĭ obo vsem podri͡ad: o teledebatakh, loshadi͡akh, smekhe, Katrin Denëv, Zhorzh Sand i Gorbacheve. Chitatʹ dalʹshe…

Francoise Sagan is a strange star of French literature, a consistently modern classic beyond any modernity. She wrote her love stories in a void where there are no events in the world, but there is always a pleasant pastime, influenced by the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre. Her stories are clearly inspired by Maupassant. In part, she is Salinger's literary sister, the creative ancestor of Sally Rooney: microscopic movements of the soul have always interested both her and her characters much more than any external events and personal actions. And at the same time, in Sagan's real life there was a place for scandals in the gossip columns, and gambling, and stormy love, and a very voluminous reality — for example, the Paris events of 1968. She lived as she pleased in a world where a boring, narrow, subordinate role of "decoration" was still intended for a woman, and all her heroines are secretly or openly rebelling against such casting: pretending to play by the rules, sometimes getting too carried away and even starting to sincerely believe in their own game, they undermine the imposed laws by constantly they are very clearly aware of them. This collection includes two texts by Sagan: her early novel "Do You Love Brahms?" — the story of a woman whose life is being controlled by two men, and "From the bottom of my Heart" is a rare example of Sagan's appeal to real life, a collection of deep and witty reflections on everything: TV debates, horses, laughter, Catherine Deneuve, George Sand and Gorbachev. Read more…